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Research Article Volume 7 Issue No.5

Design and Fabrication of Bore Well Rescue Robot

Shivam Bajpai1, Abhinav Singh2, Ravi Shankar Rai3, Ashwani Sharma4, C.K. Jha5
UG Scholar1, 2, 3, Assistant Professor4, 5
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Amity University, Lucknow, India

Abstract:
In the past few years, there have been several accidents of children falling into abandoned bore wells in India. Abandoned bore wells
that have turned into death pits for children. The problem is all over India. Rescue teams spend hours and sometimes days in futile
attempts to save these little kids. A lot of money is also spent in these missions. In most cases they are unable to save the kids. Such
events have happened umpteen times in the past, and every time either the government or the bureaucracy is blamed. The rescue
process to save the child from bore well is a long and complicated process now. The rescue team tries to approach the victim from a
parallel well that take about 20-60 hours to dig. This complicated process makes 70% of the rescue operations fail. The design of
handling system is made in such a way that the baby/victim never gets hurt and the robot itself provides some pretreatment to make
the baby survive till the end of operation. Our Robot design constitutes a best Ergonomic Design and performs safest rescue operation.

Keywords: Bore well rescue robot, Life saviour robot, Child trapped inside borehole.

1. INTRODUCTION

Water well or Bore well is an excavation or structure created in

the ground by digging, driving, boring, or drilling to access
groundwater in underground aquifers. The well water is drawn
by a pump, or using containers, such as buckets, that are raised
mechanically or by hand. Now a days it’s quite often we see
unused bore wells left open after the use. Growing water scarcity
is being recognized as an important problem facing India. These
Figure.1. Block diagram of the model
bore wells are left unclosed after identifying that ground water is
Working: This DC or direct current motor works on the
not abundant at the place. This resulted in vast increase in
principal, when a current carrying conductor is placed in a
number of bore wells. Drilled wells with electric pumps are used
magnetic field, it experiences a torque and has a tendency to
throughout the world, typically in rural or sparsely populated
move. This is known as motoring action. If the direction of
areas, though many urban areas are supplied partly by municipal
electric current in the wire is reversed, the direction of rotation
wells. Most shallow well drilling machines are mounted on large
also reverses. When magnetic field and electric field interact
trucks, trailers, or tracked vehicle carriages. Water wells
they produce a mechanical force, and based on that the working
typically range from 3 to 18 meters (9.8-59 ft.) deep, but in some
principle of dc motor established.
areas can go deeper than 900 meters (3, 000 ft.).
3.FABRICATION
2. DESIGN LAYOUT
Various tools and equipment’s are used to fabricate the modified
split air conditioner unit.
This system has a M.S (Mild Steel) 3 rods arranged in a
Equipment’s Specifications
triangular manner which consist of large dia pulley. This
arrangement at one end is connected with a rod through pulley at DC Motor 12V
the other end. The other end consists of a hanging disc which is Pump 12V
rotatable with the help of the dc motor.
Adapter 1.5A
This disc also consists of a clamp arrangement which consists of Arms 2
a pair of claws. This disc also consists of a hanging balloon Joystick 1
arrangement which is in a deflated form when it reaches the Pulley 3
child. The supply to the balloon is given through the pump. The Cable wire 1
disc also consists of a VGA cam through which the position of Bore well 42 inch
child is notices in the display. There is also a 42 inch bore well Safety Balloon 1
of 10 inch dia. All this is controlled by a string. The material of
VGA cam 1
big pulley is wood and other two is mild steel.
Resistance 4
Display 14 inch

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The primary components of the rescue robot system are:
a) DC Motor
There are 2 dc motors used in this system.One to rotate the disc,
and one to operate the arm. The disc has dc motor of 12V which
rotates with 10 rpm and arm has a motor of 12V and 40 rpm.
b) PCB controller: - The controller used is ~40A , 48V output,
which is spring loaded DPDT(double pole double through). It
uses a D.C socket as a switch which is SPDT (single pole double
through). It has the power supply through the adapter. It has 4
controls, 1st is for pump to induce the air in the pump. The 2nd
is for disc which is used for the rotation of the disc. the third one
is to operate the arm for opening and closing of the arm.
c) Pump: - Basically a vacuum pump is a device that removes
gas molecules from a sealed volume in order to leave being a
partial vacuum. The first vacuum pump was indented in 1650 by
Otto Von Guericke, and was preceded by the suction pump
which dates to antiquity.
The DP 0105 pumps belongs to the E or equivalent class for coil
insulation. Features include a voltage of 12-24v, max. Pressure
of 25 bar, 2.8 I/min free air displacement and a 666mbar
attainable vacuum.
d) Adapter: - In this system we use a switch power AC adapter
of 12V supply, 5A.
AC adapter is a type of external power supply used with
electrical device that requires power but do not contain internal
components to drive the required voltage and power from mains
power. The internal circuitry of an external power supply is very
similar to the design that would be used for a built in or internal
supply
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e) Disc: - The disc here is used to position the camera such that
the position of the child can be examined. The disc of made of
hard nylon cover which is light weighted and easily operable.
There are total 2 discs used in this arrangement placed vertically
parallel with a gap of 3.5 cm between them. The discs are of
dimension 11 inch diameter and 6 mm thickness separately.
The upper disc is fixed with the wiring tied with the
string coming through pulley. The lower disc is rotating which is
connected to the motor held vertically perpendicular to the disc.
AC adapter is a type of external power supply used with
electrical device that requires power but do not contain internal
components to drive the required voltage and power from mains
power.
f):-Arms: - The arms here are used as a clamping device which
is used to hold the child when the child is at the extreme bottom.
The arms are in pair of which one is fixed and one is movable.
The movable one is connected to the motor which comes close
to each other to clamp the child.
The material of the arms is th
The arm is connected to the dc motor which moves with 40 rpm,
max. Torque produced is 20 kg. And the current used is 9A.
g) Joystick: - The joystick is available on the pcb controller to
control the different system. Here the joystick is spring loaded
DPDT (double pole double through) is used for easy mechanism.
There are 2 controls to operate the different system. One is for
disc, and one is for arms. This helps in reverse movement of the
system that can be in opposite direction. The supply is given by
the adapter such that it is easily operable.
h) Safety balloon: - The safety balloon is an air-filled disc that
has a unique dome shaped top. The safety balloon disc is 8” in
maximum diameter. It is initially in the deflated condition, fitted
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with the nozzle. It is inflated, when this safety balloon is in the
right position under the baby. It is used to provide support for
the baby operation, the motions allowed, or to the directions of
the loads (forces) applied to the parts. External power supplies
are used both with equipments with no other source of power
and with battery powered equipment where the supply, when
plugged in, can sometimes charge the battery in addition to
improve the equipment.
AC adapter is a type of external power supply used with
electrical device that requires power but do not contain internal
components to drive the required voltage and power from mains
power. The internal circuitry of an external power supply is very
similar to the design that would be used for
External power supplies are used both with equipments
with no other source of power and with battery powered
equipment where the supply, when plugged in, can sometimes
charge the battery in addition to improve the equipment.
Working:
The rope is connected to the top of the robot. As the robot is sent
into the bore-well hole, electric wires for the motor from the
control unit is attached along the rope. The pump hose is fixed to
the upper plate of the robot. Depending on the robot movement,
the hose length is adjusted from outside the bore-well. The air
hose is carried out from the pump which is located on the 3 bar
rod system. Using the special features of the camera, the baby
position is seen through a computer. At the appropriate position,
the disc will go into the bore-well wall using the motor
connected to the pcb controller setup on the upper plate. If the
baby is trapped in the middle of bore-well, using the motor
connected at the lower end of the hollow tube, the lower plate is
rotated in such a way the safety balloon gas tube is in the gap
between bore-well and the baby. Initially the air tube is above
the end of robot hands. It +will avoid stabbing of air tube on the
baby.
Then the robot is moved down in such a way that the robot
hands free to hold the baby head or middle of the body. Then the
safety balloon is inflated by using the air compressor through
vacuum pump. The camera is placed below the lower disc. After
the safety balloon reached the exact pressure, the pump/vacuum
supply is cut off. Then the safety balloon is moved upward using
motor connected to the pulley setup till the safety balloon
completely supports the baby. Now the baby is completely in
robot control. The baby movements see through the lower
camera. Then slowly, the baby is moved upward. by pulling the
rope using the pulley control system. . When the robot is pulled
out, the rope is cut off. The robot is taken outside carefully from
the stand. The hands are loosened by the motor control and the
baby is taken for treatment. Each and every control of the system
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is done by the pcb controller which has the spring loaded
joystick. It has various control units.
4. PRECAUTIONARY STEPS:
• When baby accidently felt into the bore-well, first inform to the
rescue team in fire station.
• The people should not do anything in the bore-well hole.
• It will help in preventing foreign bodies entering into the bore-
well hole like soil, small stones, and wooden pieces.etc.
• The people can help the rescue team by removing obstacles
around 5 meter of bore-well without disturbing the bore- well
hole as said in previous step.
• They must prevent the people entering bore-well area around
10 meter diameter in order to prevent the disturbances during
rescue operation.
5. ADVANTAGES:
1) The robot is computerized Digital control system.
2) The camera used is highly advanced as mentioned earlier.
3) The thermometer setup will more useful in the pre planning of
medical team.
4) The safety balloon is more safety in case of avoiding further
falling of baby during the rescue operation.
Eco – friendly - This robot is totally eco friendly as no usage
of such harmful gases.
Economical – This method is relatively cheap from the initial
method of rescuing through digging a parall
Safety – the bore well rescue robot is prone to safe zone as
Easy maintenance
5. RESULTS & CONCLUSION
In future we can use this project in several applications by
adding additional components to this project. By connecting
temperature sensor to the robot we can get the temperature of
dangerous zones in personal computer itself instead of sending
human to there and facing problems at the field, we can send
robots to there and sensor will detect the temperature and it gives
information to the Microcontroller and microcontroller gives the
information to the transceiver from that we can get the data on
the PC side. By connecting smoke sensor to the robot we can get
the information related concentration of smoke or gases in
respective field’s i.e (coal mines, dangerous zones, etc.) Sensor
sense the information and it gives to the microcontroller and its
gives to the transceiver and from that we get the information on
personal computer.
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